David Cameron calls for faster extraditions from UK

David Cameron told BBC Radio 4 that it took too long for Britain to extradite a radical cleric to face charges in the US.

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May 20, 2014

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Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron leaves Number 10 Downing Street to attend Prime Minister's Questions at parliament in London May 7.

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LONDON

British Prime Minister David Cameron said Tuesday he will seek to make extradition faster after the conviction in New York of radical cleric Mustafa Kamel Mustafa on terrorist charges.

He told BBC Radio 4 that it took too long for Britain to extradite the cleric, known in Britain as Abu Hamza and remembered for his fiery, anti-Western sermons at the Finsbury Park Mosque in North London.